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Chapter 395

Seeing the members of the Special Operations Team arriving in a hurry, Wang Xuan smiled and called Yu Sheng over, "I'll leave the rest to you. I promise that whoever kills the two patriarchs will let their family live. You can deal with it. I don't care, they have packed all the belongings, and you can check the rest."

"This subordinate understands." Yu Sheng responded with cupped fists.

Wang Xuan patted him on the shoulder, "I don't worry about your work, go ahead."

"Oh, wait a minute, I almost forgot about the guard, Ye Huo, take some people to get rid of all the high-level officials in the Zhangzhou guard."

"Besides, I will lead someone to chase after Tian Boguang, and I will bring all my money back!"

After explaining everything, there will be nothing wrong with Wang Xuan.

At noon, the belongings taken away by the Liu family were also recovered, and calculated together, the property of the three families exceeded 1000 million taels. Including the commander of the guard who "died his life for the country", the three families had a total of 300 million taels. Harvest 50 million taels of property and [-] mu of land.

Wang Xuan did some calculations, and the seven families have a total of 120 million mu of land and more than 900 million taels of property!
This does not include some items such as leaders and antique calligraphy and paintings. After all, there is no fixed value for the specific value of those items.

These harvests alone made Wang Xuan a little speechless. You must know that the current tax revenue of the entire Ming court is only more than 300 million taels a year.

However, the taels of silver confiscated from these seven families are equal to the taxes of the eighth year of Ming Dynasty. Of course, the tax of more than 300 million taels here refers to the tax of silver taels alone, excluding income from land, salt, iron, tea, etc.

In addition, the arable land of Ming Dynasty is decreasing every year. From Yongle to Wanli, the land tax has dropped by as much as [-]%. It is because a large number of royal children have been entrusted to various places, which has led to the reduction of the court's land.

Early the next morning, Wang Xuan and his party got on the big boat at the pier and returned. After raiding the house for the first time, Wang Xuan realized that this f*cking big boat might not be enough. This is considered to be a one-time transport of the confiscated property of these families.

As for the members of the Special Operations Team, Yu Sheng led them back by land. There were too many people and the ship did not have that much transport capacity.

It took five days all the way back to Fuzhou Mansion again. This sudden incident, a little more than ten days before and after, actually wiped out the seven major families that had been entrenched in Fujian for hundreds of years, and completely destroyed the top power structure in Fujian. Xuan turned Fujian into an iron bucket and completely paved the way.

In the re-expanded vault where all the confiscated property was transported, this was specially ordered by Wang Xuanlin to expand before departure. The underground, all-reinforced concrete structure is one meter thick, and the gate is all-iron casting, ten centimeters thick. .

After returning to the residence, Wang Xuan left Yehuo and Qinghongzaibai alone. The main bodies of the seven major families have been eliminated, but there are still many branches in various places. If these branches are not cut off, it will be a trouble sooner or later.

Yehuo has all these materials in his hands, from Beijing officials to local officials, they are divided into three categories: direct line officials of the seven major families, collateral officials, and supportive officials.

Holding this document, Wang Xuan briefly looked through it. The number of members in the direct lineage was the least, only a dozen or so. There were high and low, and there were not many collateral lines. The most were officials who supported and supported them. It's just that there is a difference in closeness, the relationship between these 80 people is not that close, and they are not completely devoted to the seven major families.

"Fang Jingtian, what do you think, those of these people need to be eliminated."

Wang Xuan handed the information to a person beside him, this person was Fang Jingtian, a native of Jianning Prefecture, Fujian Province, a Juren, with an average family background, even if he got the honor of Juren, it was just that he collected a lot of land for tax avoidance. I haven't passed the exam for several years. I wanted to be a candidate for an official, but because I didn't have much money, I couldn't get a gift. I waited in line for five or six years without any results.

Later, the new city built by Wang Xuan needed a lot of managers. After various screenings, this person was selected.

Fang Jingtian took a look at the information, pondered for a moment and said: "The direct descendants must be eliminated, and the collateral descendants cannot be retained. There are not many people in this group, and it will not cause too much influence. As for the officials who support them, I think they can still be recruited." .”

"Yeah." Wang Xuan nodded, that's it, anyway, he didn't take it to heart anyway, "Then you take the people from the Killer Hall around, and let the two deputy hall masters Gu Nan and Wu Ya Take part of the manpower, divide the troops into three groups, and get rid of those people."

"No problem, the only pity is that there is no way to rob the house, tsk tsk, how much less will it cost!"

"You are addicted to copying your house, right? When you kill someone, be careful, try to die in a bizarre way, and don't leave any clues. Even if everyone knows that we did it, you still have to live on the surface. "

"How is it weird?"

"For example, Gu Nan can be asked to jump out and kill people openly, and say that this person has been chaotic and abandoned, and she is here for revenge."

"Poisoned."

"Shattered brains in sleep."

"Assassinated by the local martial arts sect or bandits and water bandits."

"Bite by a poisonous snake or insect."

"There are many ways, adapt to the situation, just the people of Lin Yan's family, let them commit suicide in fear of crime, or disappear."

Pay attention to the way of killing, Wang Xuan can come up with a hundred kinds.

"Okay, I understand, I'm leaving tomorrow."

"Ye Huo, you are taking people to Funing Prefecture tomorrow, so that the people in the border guards will also die for the country. It is a rare opportunity to make trouble with Japanese pirates."

"Ok."

"Okay, that's it, let's go."

After these people dispersed, Wang Xuan couldn't rest. He still had to meet with Governor Li. After all, the incident was so serious that he still had to give the court an explanation. In addition, the annihilation of more than 3000 "Japanese pirates" was also due to his contribution. To report, in the end, the commander of the guards of the three prefectures and Qianhu must be reappointed.

There are a lot of things, and this is not counting the 120 million mu of land Wang Xuan raided this time. How to deal with so much land, he never thought about holding it in his own hands.

The carriage rumbled into the city, and Wang Xuan directly asked Governor Li to meet him at Qiushiju.

The two sat together, and eight exquisite dishes were placed on the table.

"In terms of eating, Qiushiju is the best I have ever seen." Governor Li sighed.

"Oh? Is there no better one in the capital? What about the royal banquet?" Wang Xuan was also curious about this point.

As a member of the second rank, Li Shantang has also seen royal banquets, so he naturally has the right to speak about Wang Xuan's question, "Compared to the royal family, there are only more types, and the taste has not changed for hundreds of years."

"How could this be? Don't those chefs in the palace study new dishes and new flavors?" Wang Xuan frowned, he didn't understand this.

"Hey." Governor Li smiled strangely, then shook his head again, "I have nothing to say to you, this emperor, really, is not easy to be!"

Wang Xuan knew this, especially the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, most of them had never left the Forbidden City in their entire lives, and they didn't say much to the civil and military officials above and below, they were like puppets being manipulated.

"Let's not talk about other things, just talk about the food and drink. Why do you say that the taste has not changed for hundreds of years? This is all very particular."

"Taking drinking as an example, many of the various expensive teas are tributes, but do you know that the emperor has never drunk fresh tea." Speaking of this, Governor Li once again chuckled and put a shark's fin with chopsticks into his mouth Taste it, and then continued: "This is because some tea leaves cannot be guaranteed to be produced every year. What if something unexpected happens? Tell the emperor that this tea is gone this year, let's talk about it next year, that's for sure. No, doesn't it seem that everyone is not good at doing things?"

"The best way is to drink last year's old tea for the emperor. Even if there is an accident, there is still a stock base to cover it, so there will be no mistakes."

"The same is true for this imperial meal. Does the new taste suit the emperor's taste? Even if you agree with the emperor's wishes, but you let the emperor taste the new taste today, what if the emperor continues to ask for new tastes in the future? Who can guarantee? New flavors can often be produced, and it must be in line with the emperor's wishes. This is not once or twice a day, what should I do if I can't get it out at that time? Who is responsible? So, just don't let the emperor taste it. "

"Just tell the emperor that this imperial meal is already the best in the world, and there is absolutely nothing beyond it, that's all."

"After all, what can the emperor know in the Forbidden City all day long, if you tell him it's good, then it's good, tea is like this, imperial food is like this, everything is like this."

Wang Xuan rolled his eyes straight when he heard that, what the hell, the emperor is indeed a coward.

The two chatted for a while, before Wang Xuan mentioned the main purpose of today, and by the way, talked about Lin Yan's collusion with Japanese pirates, "This time, the matter of the seven major families needs to be covered up by Mr. Li."

"It's not a big problem, just follow what you said. The Lin Yan family colluded with Japanese pirates, but what do you plan to do with those officials in other places?"

"The Lin Yan family committed suicide in fear of crime or fled and disappeared, and the other families all had accidents..."

Governor Li took a deep look at Wang Xuan, didn't say much, but lamented Wang Xuan's cruelty and ruthlessness in his heart, "There is still a problem here."

"Sir, please speak."

"How to report the confiscated land and property, after all, to make everyone shut up, there must be something to stop everyone's mouth."

"I will definitely reserve a large part of the land for other uses, so let's report [-] mu. The property master thinks it is more appropriate for the two families to seize."

In the end, the two discussed and decided to report and seize 150 million taels, sell 50 mu of land for 200 taels, and transport a total of more than [-] million taels of property and some antique calligraphy and paintings to the capital together.

(End of this chapter)